Sage of Humanity

Just as he was thinking this, a message from the battlefield marking came through—it was a message from his Second Senior Sister.

"If you're available, come over to Green Emperor City's base."

Lu Ye promptly replied, "Is something the matter?"

"Someone wants to meet you."

Lu Ye felt a bit puzzled.

If he was not mistaken, Green Emperor City should be a 2nd grade sect in Bingzhou, its overall strength only slightly inferior to the 1st grade sects, quite similar to the current Loyal Heart Sect.

However, Lu Ye had never had any dealings with the people from Green Emperor City, nor did he know why his Second Senior Sister would have him go to their base.

Second Senior Sister didn't elaborate, and Lu Ye didn't ask for details, because if Shui Yuan truly wanted to explain, she surely would have told him.

"Understood."

After replying, Lu Ye took out the ten-part map to check, and found that his current location wasn't too far from the base of Green Emperor City. If he were to travel there using weapon control-flying, it wouldn't take half a day.

But... turning his head back, he saw streaks of Liu Guang relentlessly chasing after him like maggots on bone—Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators were unrelenting in their pursuit of him.

In this situation, it wouldn't be good to fly directly to Green Emperor City.

He needed to find a way to shake off the tails following him.

If he truly wanted to get rid of them, Lu Ye had methods. Continuously activating the flight spirit runes, even the sword cultivators known for their speed would be left eating his dust.

Making up his mind and about to take action, Yiyi, who was standing behind Lu Ye, suddenly let out an exclamation. Before Lu Ye could react and understand what had happened, he felt the spirit force around him suddenly solidify, and his body uncontrollably plummeted diagonally downwards. Amber, who had been crouching on Lu Ye's shoulder, also widened her beastly pupils and clung tightly to Lu Ye's clothes to prevent being thrown off.

Despite the sudden turn of events, Lu Ye was not the slightest bit panicked and immediately surveyed his surroundings. He did not spot any signs of someone ambushing him, and instead saw the cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge who were following him—one and all, they were also shrieking as they fell diagonally downwards, which was a very pleasant sight to behold...

Sky Prohibition, huh?

The thought immediately popped into Lu Ye's mind.

If there were a Sky Prohibition restriction in this area, then indeed, Flying Spirit Artifacts passing overhead would lose control.

But the fact that his own spirit force was also shackled meant it was more than just the effect of Sky Prohibition!

If it wasn't Sky Prohibition, could it be spirit prohibition?

That wasn't quite right either; the affected area was too vast, a simple spirit prohibition couldn't achieve such an effect.

In the span of a moment, numerous thoughts raced through Lu Ye's mind.

Before he could figure out what exactly was happening, the shackled spirit force within him recovered, and Lu Ye hurriedly activated his spirit force, causing his body that had been plummeting to soar upwards once more.

"Lu Ye, it's probably the Yuan Magnetic Howling approaching!" Yiyi's voice came from behind him.

With that reminder, Lu Ye finally understood.

Since he had initially stirred the pot in the inner circle, leading the Haotian Alliance's Allied Forces to occupy residences of a hundred or two of the sects from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge, he had heard some rumors about the Three Calamities of Spirit Stream battlefield.

The so-called Three Calamities of the Spirit Stream battlefield refer to the Spirit Stream Heavenly Thunder, the Yuan Magnetic Howling, and Yiye's Gaze.

The Spirit Stream battlefield rarely echoes with heavenly thunder, but when it does thunder, much of the time it signals an approaching Insect Plague, which is when all cultivators are busiest, as no matter the camp or sect, they all must wholeheartedly combat the insect waves near their residences.

The Yuan Magnetic Howling, on the other hand, is another disaster, even more unpredictable than the Insect Plague.

The Spirit Stream battlefield would experience a turmoil of origin magnetic field howling every few to about ten years or so.

Lu Ye was not unfamiliar with the origin magnetic field. Back in the Evil Moon Valley mine, it was by using the origin magnetic field that he, as a mortal, was able to slay Manager Yang and hence embarked on the path of cultivation.

The origin magnetic field deep within that mine was not very powerful; it was mostly just the invisible field generated by some origin magnetic ore. But there, Manager Yang was utterly unable to utilize any spirit force and was confusedly killed by Lu Ye in the end.

What if that kind of origin magnetic field were magnified a thousandfold, or even ten thousandfold?

What if such a force howled past, sweeping across the entire Spirit Stream battlefield?

That is the true nature of the Yuan Magnetic Howling of the Three Calamities.

Whenever this occurs, the entire Spirit Stream battlefield is inundated with the origin magnetic field, the nature's spiritual energy of the colossal battlefield solidifies, and even the spirit force within cultivators is difficult to mobilize.

During such times, cultivators can no longer practice by breathing in and out nature's spiritual energy. Even the spirit force within them cannot be activated in the slightest.

During this period on the Spirit Stream battlefield, all cultivators have to rely only on their physical strength!

For cultivators who rely on spirit force for combat, this is undoubtedly a great disaster.

But correspondingly, it is spring for physique cultivators, and combat cultivators also have some room to play; as for magic and ghost cultivators with fragile physiques... they generally hide within their residences, shivering.

There are signs before the Yuan Magnetic Howling, just like what had happened earlier. When such signs emerge, the volatile origin magnetic field will soon envelop the entire Spirit Stream battlefield.

Lu Ye could only feel fortunate that this natural disaster came with signs; otherwise, if it came without any warning, quite a number of cultivators flying back and forth in the sky would probably fall to their deaths.

As for Yiye's low bowed head among the Three Calamities, Lu Ye felt that this was entirely slander by Ten Thousand Demons Ridge…

So, when he heard such ridiculous statements, he only laughed it off and did not take it too seriously.

Yiyi was a Spiritual Body and was extremely sensitive to the origin magnetic field, so she noticed it earlier than Lu Ye.

"Return to Amber's body," Lu Ye said hastily.

When the origin magnetic field enveloped the battlefield, the only effect on cultivators was that they were unable to mobilize their spirit force; however, the impact on Yiyi was significant. If she didn't hide inside Amber's body, she might very well disperse entirely.

"Okay." Yiyi replied and immediately vanished from sight.

"Amber, show your true form!"

Amber responded with a low roar, leaped from Lu Ye's shoulder to stand where Yiyi had just been, and under the surging Demon Origin, revealed its true form.

Lu Ye took the opportunity to lower his altitude, flying less than fifteen feet above the ground, so that even if the same situation occurred again, he wouldn't fall to his death.

For a cultivator, dying from a fall from a high place would be the most tragic death imaginable.

No sooner had he dealt with that, than Lu Ye once again felt as if the spirit force within his body was restricted, unable to be used, and he fell from a height of fifteen feet along with the tiger.

Scrambling to his feet as his spirit force recovered, he continued onward, controlling his weapon for flight.

After several such occurrences, the origin magnetic field finally pervaded the entire Spirit Stream battlefield. In an instant, all cultivators were unable to mobilize their spirit force, the nature's spiritual energy also solidified, and not only that, but even the protective arrays of the various encampments shattered without attack.

The only thing the cultivators could still use were the various functions associated with their battlefield markings, as these were tied to Heaven's Augury and were thus unaffected by the origin magnetic field.

Lu Ye had already mounted Amber and was swiftly leaving a trail of dust. The cultivators from Ten Thousand Demons Ridge who were chasing after him could only watch helplessly as he escaped from their grasp.

At this moment, Lu Ye had only one thought: bringing Amber along on this trip was indeed a wise decision.

Otherwise, he would have had to rely on his own ability to run, and he couldn't bear to imagine that scenario.

When the origin magnetic field swept over the Spirit Stream battlefield, Ten Thousand Demons Ridge suddenly realized this was an opportunity!

An opportunity to kill Lu Yiye!

Ever since he was promoted to 8th Heaven, he became very difficult to handle; nowadays, as the leader of the Spirit Stream Ranking and having received another baptism of Heaven's Augury, he had become even stronger than before.

With too few people, Ten Thousand Demons Ridge couldn't kill him; with too many, they couldn't catch him. They had always been at a loss on how to handle him.

But now, with spirit force prohibited and everyone relying solely on their physical prowess, if they could trap Lu Yiye somewhere, even just a few dozen people could kill him!

Realizing this, many of the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge cultivators, long frustrated by Lu Ye, almost wanted to shout for joy to the heavens—this was a stroke of luck!

However, the cultivators of Ten Thousand Demons Ridge quickly realized a new problem.

That was, Lu Yiye had a mount!

The White Tiger that could use the roar of a tiger to shake the minds of its enemies!

Truth be told, cultivators with lower cultivation levels liked to tame and keep mounts, since at lower levels, mounts were not only used for travel but also provided assistance in battles against enemies.

However, once cultivators reached Level 8 and gained the ability to fly with weapon control, they generally stopped taming mounts. They could fly on their own; what need was there for a mount? Even those tamed in their weaker days couldn't keep up with the cultivators' growth in strength and were eventually discarded.

So if they wanted to take advantage of this opportunity to kill Lu Yiye, they would need adequate mounts capable of catching up to him.

Luckily, there was a beast-taming faction among them; cultivators of this faction specialized in combat using tamed beasts, with their strength dependent on the might of the demon beasts they commanded.

When Lu Ye was climbing the rankings, he encountered a guy who brought four demon beasts to battle, only for Lu Ye to kill them all cleanly in one go, man and beasts alike. The corpses of those beasts later became a source of nourishment for both Lu Ye and Amber.

Suddenly, in all of the Ten Thousand Demons Ridge encampments, the beast-taming faction cultivators became in high demand. Some demon cultivator sects even allocated many bird-type demon beasts, searching for Lu Ye's whereabouts both in the sky and on the ground, according to his last known location.

It was imperative to find him before the origin magnetic field's howl ended so that they could eliminate him completely!

During this time, Lu Ye had already ridden on Amber to the Green Emperor City encampment.

What normally would have been a half-day journey by controlling a weapon, took two days on Amber, even after her strength had greatly improved and her speed had increased. If it had been before, this journey would have undoubtedly taken four or five days.

Weary and covered in dust.

In the Green Emperor City encampment, the protective array had already been nullified by the origin magnetic field's howl, and all cultivators had returned to their encampment, standing ready for anything, as no one knew if enemies would take advantage of the situation to attack.

No sooner than the figure on the White Tiger appeared outside the Green Emperor City encampment, was he spotted by the cultivators of the city, and they quickly relayed the information.

By the time Lu Ye reached the outskirts of the encampment, a cultivator approached him: "Are you Fellow Daoist Yiye from the Righteous Blood Sect?"

"Indeed, it is I!"

Lu Ye replied.

The cultivator gestured with his hand, "Please, Fellow Daoist Yiye."